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Iain M. Banks: Surface Detail

Скачать книгу (размер 3 196 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 628) Аннотация: It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture. It begins in the realm…

Iain M. Banks: Surface Detail

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is…

Iain M Banks: Matter

Скачать книгу (размер 3 023 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 594) Аннотация: In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one — maybe two — people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she’d thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was;…

Iain M. Banks: The Algebraist

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilisation. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly…

Iain M. Banks: Look to Windward

Скачать книгу (размер 2 049 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 403) Аннотация: It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, eight hundred years later, the light from the first of those ancient mistakes has reached the Culture Orbital, Masaq'.

Iain M. Banks: Inversions

Скачать книгу (размер 1 998 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 393) Аннотация: In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard too has his enemies. He also has at least one person he cares for deeply and who cares for him, though…

Iain M. Banks: Excession

Скачать книгу (размер 2 294 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 451) Аннотация: Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back.

Iain M. Banks: Feersum Endjinn

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Count Sessine is about to die for the very last time ... Chief Scientist Gadfium is about to receive the mysterious message she has been waiting for from the Plain of Sliding Stones ... And Bascule the Teller, in search of an ant, is about to enter the chaos of the crypt ... And everything is about to change ... For this is the time of the encroachment and, although the dimming sun still shines…

Iain M. Banks: Use of Weapons

Скачать книгу (размер 2 207 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 434) Аннотация: The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as…

Iain M. Banks: The Player of Games

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The Culture — a human/machine symbiotic society — has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game ... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes…

Iain M. Banks: Consider Phlebas

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very starsThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake.…